conventions of estates造句

• The Convention of Estates intended to do.
• It is first identifiable as a parliament in 1235, during the reign of Convention of Estates.
• By the early fourteenth century the attendance of knights and General Council and thereafter by the Convention of Estates.
• After the Acts of Union 1707, Annan, constituency of the Parliament of Scotland and the Convention of Estates.
• Some of the older lawyers insisted on the inability of the convention of estates to make any disposition of the crown.
• Before the sixteenth century, parliamentary business was also carried out by'sister'institutions, including the Convention of Estates.
• At the same time, in Convention of Estates enacted the Claim of Right Act 1689, which placed similar limits on the Scottish monarchy.
• He was Commissioner for Haddingtonshire at the Conventions of Estates in the years 1678, 1681, and 1689, and in Parliament of Scotland for the year 1690.
• Who should occupy the vacant Scottish throne was not decided until the spring of 1689 by a Convention of Estates, on condition that the new monarchs accepted the Bill of Rights.
• As a peer Balvaird attended a meeting of the convention of estates; but on 10 August 1643 it was decided by the assembly of the kirk that he should keep his ministry, and give up speaking in parliament.
• Holborne was a Major General by 1645, when he was nominated, with the Earl of Leven, and Lord Kirkcudbright, as a deputation from the Convention of Estates, the most powerful party in Scotland at that time, to open negotiations with Oliver Cromwell, whose army was then at Berwick.
• To decide on its tenancy a Convention of Estates-a parliament meeting without royal sanction-assembled in Edinburgh in March 1689 . It was quickly apparent to John Graham of Claverhouse, a professional soldier, recently created Viscount Dundee, that the Jacobites, the supporters of James, were in a minority.
• The King, however, was not yet finished, and when the Convention of Estates met at Stirling on 7 September he conspired with those opposed to Bothwell to recall his pardon and Royal messengers went to meet Bothwell on the 11th, at Linlithgow, with the news that the king proposed to modify his blanket pardon, and added a condition that Bothwell would have to go into exile.